Smoking device for cigarettes and cigars



NOV. 12, 1968 Z. EPHRON ETAL 3,410,281

SMOKING DEVICE FOR CIGARETTES AND CIGARS 2 Filed NOV 29, 1966 United States Patent f 4,880 2 Claims. (Cl. 131173) ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE This invention is directed to a smoke washing cigarette pipe having a receptacle for water or the like and in wh ch the receptacle may be inserted or removed by sliding same in a direction that is normal to the longitudinal axis of the stem of the pipe.

The present invention concerns smoking devices for cigarettes and cigars of the kind in which the smoke is filtered by being passed through a liquid with a view to eliminate as much nicotine and tar as possible before it reaches the smoker.

The invention consists in a cigarette holder of the kind used for smoking cigarettes or cigars having means for filtering the smoke, comprising an elongated body having a socket in which the cigarette or cigar is lodged and having a mouthpiece and a passage leading from said socket to said mouthpiece, characterized in that said passage is divided into two parts by a substantially vertical aperture in said body which aperture is adapted to receive an insert which establishes communication between the two parts of said passage through a refill capsule laterally removably attached to said body and partially filled with a filtering fluid, so as to make the smoke from said cigarette or cigar travel through said liquid before it reaches the mouth piece.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention said insert is constituted by a rotatable plug having an axially extending tube adapted to extend into the fluid of said capsule and a lateral bore in alignment with one part of the passage and leading into said tube, and having further an axial bore merging into a lateral bore in alignment with the other part of the passage.

The invention is illustrated, by way of example only, in the accompanying drawings in which;

FIG. 1 is a longitudinal section through one embodiment of the cigarette holder according to the invention,

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the plug thereof,

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the bushing thereof,

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the body of the cigarette holder of FIG. 1,

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a refill capsule thereof,

FIG. 6 is a longitudinal section through a second embodiment of the cigarette holder according to the invention,

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the plug thereof,

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of the body thereof, and

FIG. 9 is a perspective view of a refill capsule thereof.

The cigarette holder according to the invention comprises an elongated body 1 having a socket 2 for the insertion of the end of a cigarette, indicated at 3 and a mouthpiece t, the axially extending channel for the smoke 2a, 4a between the socket 2 and mouthpiece 4 being interrupted by a vertically extending aperture 5 in which a bushing 6, having a conical bore, is fixedly inserted. The external collar of the bushing 6 is diametrically pierced at 6a to provide holes in alignment with the channels 2a, 4a, a small notch 6b being provided through the bottom wall of the bushing in vertical alignment with one of the 3,410,281 Patented Nov. 12, 1968 holes 6a. A conical plug 7 into which an axially extending tube 7a is partially inserted has a lateral bore 711 extending between said tube at a level so as to be in alignment with bores 6a and passage 2a when the plug 7 is inserted into bushing 6. The plug 7 is further provided with a groove 7c which when the plug is inserted into the bushing is adapted to provide communication between the notch 6b and passage 4a of the mouthpiece.

The holder body 1 is integral with downwardly extending beaded jaws 1a which between them are adapted to hold a refill capsule 8. This capsule is constituted by a transparent or translucent container the top wall 8a of which is a plane surface, shoulders 8b being provided on its side walls below which the beads of the jaws engage to hold the capsule in the body. An inverted frusto-conical aperture is provided in the top wall 8a of the capsule and surrounds in a hermetical sealing manner the bushing 6 when the capsule is held by the jaws in the body 1. The capsule is partially filled with water or a suitable smoke filtering fluid.

When the assembled smoking device is in use, i.e. when plug 7 is lodged in bushing 6 and capsule 8 is in place between jaws 1a so that tube 7a extends to near the bottom of the capsule, the smoke from cigarette 3 travels through passage 2a, aperture 6a, bore 7b, tube 7a, filtering liquid in capsule 8, notch 6b, groove 70, and passage 4a and reaches the smoker in a filtered condition.

After use, the plug 7 is turned whereby the passage from the socket 2 to the mouthpiece is interrupted. No liquid from capsule 8 can escape to the outside, since the bore 7b and groove 70 are now covered by the solid wall of the bushing 6.

The capsule 8 is made of plastics or any other suitable material. It may be furnished with its aperture 80 closed by a small plug (not shown) which is removed before the capsule is attached to the body, or the aperture may be covered by a thin film of material (not shown) which is pierced by the tube 7a as the capsule is assembled to the body. The tube 7a is pointed at its bottom for this purpose.

In the embodiment of the invention illustrated in FIGS. 6-9 the body 1' having the Socket 2 for the cigarette 3, the mouthpiece 4 and smoke passages 2a and 4a, is provided with a bushing 6 having lateral apertures 6a aligned with apertures 2a, 4a as in the embodiment of FIGS. 1, 3 and 4. The notch 6b of FIG. 3 is, however, not provided. In the conical plug 7 having tube Ta and lateral aperture 7b, the groove 7c of plug 7 of FIG. 2 is replaced by an axial bore 7c into which merges a lateral bore 7d, bore 7d being in alignment with aperture 6a and passage 4a. The bottom end 7e of plug 7' is cylindrical. The refill capsule -8' is cylindrical and is inserted from the side into a cylindrical aperture 1b formed in a downward extension 10 of body 1. The capsule 8' made of plastics, is partially filled with water or a filtering liquid and has a frusto-conical aperture 8'c in its circumferential wall into which, after the capsule has been inserted into aperture 1b, the tube 7a and the bottom end 7e of plug 7' extend, the circumference of aperture 8'c hermetically surrounding end 7e.

The smoke travels through socket 2, passage 2a, aperture 6'11, apperture 7'b, tube 7a, filtering liquid of capsule 8', bore 7'c, bore 7d, aperture -6'a and passage 4a to the smoker. A turning of plug 7' in bushing 6' will interrupt the passages and prevent liquid from escaping.

The invention is not limited to the design of the body 1, 1' or capsules 8, 8', which may have any suitable esthetic form.

The body of the holder is preferably made of plastics, as is the plug. It is possible to construct the body of the holder of light-weight metal, in which case the use of the :bushing may be omitted. The body and/or plug may be provided with a stop in order to limit the rotational movement of the plug between the position in which communication exists between the passages 20 and 4a and in which such communication is interrupted.

We claim as our invention:

1. A holder of the kind used for smoking cigarettes or cigars having means for filtering the smoke, comprising an elongated body having a socket in which the cigarette or cigar is lodged and having a mouth-piece and a passage leading from said socket to said mouth-piece, wherein said passage is divided into two parts by means providing a substantially vertical aperture in said body communicating at the lower end thereof with means providing a transverse channel adapted to receive and retain a refillable liquid-containing capsule and means whereby said capsule provides communication between the two parts of said passage, said capsule being insertable in and removable from said transverse channel 'by sliding said capsule in a direction that is normal to the longitudinal axis of the body of said cigarette holder, so as to make the smoke from said cigarette or cigar travel through said liquid before it reaches the mouth-piece.

2. The cigarette holder of claim 1 wherein said communicating providing means includes a plug removably References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 809,325 1/1906 Probyn 131-173 1,372,544 3/1921 Pineda 131-173 2,986,146 5/1961 Li 131173 X 3,209,765 10/1965 Shih 131-173 FOREIGN PATENTS 797,941 2/1936 France.

828,933 1/ 1952 Germany.

36,539 4/ 1906 Switzerland.

JOSEPH S. REICH, Primary Examiner. 

